BDO, a global acccountancy and business advisory firm, has named Chris Bellairs as new partner within the financial services practice.

Bellairs has joined BDO from PwC, where he led the insurance and investment management internal audit advisory service.

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He also sered as a senior statutory auditor on a number of external audits in the fund management sector, across asset managers, private equity, real estate, and hedge fund managers.

Bellairs has more than 16 years experience as an auditor and adviser across financial services industry.

Mark Hunt, head of BDO’s financial services practice, said: "His skills and experience across the sector are crucial to our plans to increase market opportunities for the practice, and complement our existing financial services offering."

Bellairs said: "My goal is to help organisations be better at managing risk efficiently and effectively, in order to help the organisation in delivering on its objectives of better and broader assurance across the business, while also minimising associated costs."

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